[quote]Thomas Gabriel wrote:
matko5 wrote:
He looks like an ordinary, decent looking guy. What happened dammit?
As western women become more unattractive (obesity, laziness etc.), the market value of women who are attractive will increase. Because of the increased demand, women will become much pickier. Also, men’s standards have greatly increased because of constant exposure to beautiful women in the media and porn.
Compounding this problem, today’s generations of boys raised without male role models will mature, and will have an extremely difficult time with women. What they have learned from their mothers and the feminist media will be useless to them.
Consequently, the increasing number of men that lack feminine energy in their lives will cause them to become emotionally unstable and lead to situations like this.
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Well said.
More generally speaking, there are many different large scale social trends and factors which have come about in the past several decades which have all contributed to a decline in the ability of men and women to attract and relate to each other. It encompasses everything from technology, to cultural changes in male/female roles and dynamics, family environment, physical fitness, media influence, special interest groups, and corporate greed, to name a few. This is largely an American phenomenon, but as we export our culture across the world, it’s starting to spread to other places as well.
On the harmless end of the scale, you see the hamsters (as TC calls them), metrosexuals and the poor saps on VH1’s “The Pickup Artist”. On the other end of the scale, this culminates in sexually frustrated, angry men who perpetrate violence against women.
This isn’t to excuse this guy for his actions, which are terrible, tragic, and inexcusable. However, unfortunately this type of incident is likely to become more common place.